Liriogame. Cl.3. Tetre. Orv, 11. Pariwes, 61 
Trillium. J. L. 
Paris. J. L. 
Euthyra. Paris polyphylla. Sx. 7n Nepal. 
This small Order appears to me a very distinct one, especially from 
milacece, to which Mr. R. Baows joins it. Esdra is so named and 
charaeterized by having all its Organs both of Vegetation pro 
duction strie ssile ; even its Anthers, which stand erect round 
the Stigmata have scarcely any Filaments ; Leav ri 
et ry An Trillium on the contrary the 
Floweris always pedu ted; this Genus contains several Species, 
u 
4-8-nary number prevails, and I have seen 5-10-nary; its Petals 
are considerably narrower than the Calyx, though of the same colour ; 
ts Filaments at last become black and succulent like the Fruit; and 
t also two 
Leaves, 8 or 10 in each, petio and linear-lanceolate ; y- 
cine Leaves exactly like "those below, and these often 4 Pm qae 
this Plant grows wild in Nepal, and specimens of it have been se 
to Europe by Dr. Watticx in great abundance. 
Ord. 12. — 
Petala 6, lanceolata, interiora paulo latiora. Filamenta 6, recep- 
taculo inserta, cuneata. there filamento confluentes et longiores, 
i i ibus 2 terminalibus intro 
erianthium , 9-locu 
cilis, usque ad foramina Antherarum attingens. Stigma minutum, 
obsolete 3-lobum. Semina numero indefinita, erecta, oblonga, septis 
2-plici serie inserta, cæterum ignota omnibus in nostro specimine 
ab Insectis erosis. Frutex in Ins. Nicobar. Caulis volubilis, acu- 
leatus, forte perennis. Folia alterna, sessilia, longissime cuneata, basi 
cordata, dorso plus minus aculeata ; Nervi paralleli isthmis paucis 
transversis, nec Smilacum. Flores in rudimentis ramulorum avil- 
laribus terminales, l-rü, nutantes. Bractee nulle. 
Androsyne Gracilis MS. avn{ vir ev» una. 
Àn — tme which I think must be placed here in a 
natural series, and connecting Roxburghia with Paridee. It grows 
wild in the Ni ire Isles, and I am indebted for a small branch of 
it here —€— to Wrt1am Marspen Esq. late Secretary of our Ad- 
i as twining prickly Stems, but whether perennial or 
not is adie i long attenuated Leaves more or less heartshaped at 
their base and prickly underneath ; — 22 wers terminating 
short axillary tdmen approac roaching to E noe from 
which it differs in its 6-petalous Corolla, prone ila- 
ments, Anthers rough with short pubescence, ulcus into a Cone, 
